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The Cardinal's Hat : Money, Ambition, and Housekeeping in a Renaissance Court
The Cardinal's Hat Money Ambition and Housekeeping in a Renaissance Court Author:Mary Hollingsworth The Cardinals Hat is the fascinating story of how Ippolito dEste, the second son of Lucretia Borgia, became the Archbishop of Milan. Through his own letters and ledgers, recently uncovered in the basement of an archive in the Northern Italian town of Modena, Mary Hollingsworth has pieced together a fascinating and undeniably titillat... more »ing tale of a real-life Renaissance cardinal and how he achieved his ambition to acquire the coveted cardinals hata road to power and wealth in Sixteenth-century Italy that has little to do with piety.« less